Getting Something From Nothing

The last post dealt with infinity and how an actual infinity cannot exist. "God didn't create the universe; it's infinite; it's always existed" you might hear someone say. But this is NOT what the overwhelming scientific evidence shows. All the evidence points to a beginning of the universe that includes space, time and all matter.

In 1922 Alexander Friedmann proposed a theory that the universe began with a giant explosion that he called "The Big Bang." His theory was based on the observations from the far reaches of the universe and later confirmed by astronomer Edwin Hubble; the observations are what astronomers call "redshift". What "redshift" shows is that the known galaxies are moving away from each other and that the universe it literally expanding. Friedmann thought that if the universe is expanding out, like a balloon being blown up, then when you reverse the process we come to what is known as the singularity. The singularity is the point when space, time and all matter came into existence. Scientists don't know what created the Big Bang, since there was nothing before it, but everything came into existence at the singularity.

Now the fun part! Something cannot come from nothing, and whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist; therefore, it has a cause. Since the cause of the universe created time, the cause must be timeless and changeless. It must also be immaterial and transcend space, since it created space and all matter. It must also be extremely powerful since it created the universe. We can see how science has revealed what Christians have always believed: In the beginning, God created the universe.